This Week's Guests:

• Michael "Nick" Nichols became a staff photographer for the National Geographic Society in 1996 and was named editor at large in January 2008. He is an award-winning photographer whose work has taken him to the most remote corners of the world. Nichols joins Boyd in the studio to talk about adventures from climbing rock cliffs to tracking lions and elephants.

• Imagine traveling to another country to help save a loved one’s life and then not being allowed to go home again. That’s the story behind La Americana, a new film by director Nicholas Bruckman. Bruckman’s film screened at National Geographic’s 2008 All Roads Film Festival and recently won the Best Documentary award at the New York Latino Film Festival.

• Could you forgive someone who had murdered your entire family? That is what two women who survived the 1994 Rwandan genocide are faced with in the new movie, As We Forgive, directed by Laura Waters Hinson. Hinson joins Boyd in the studio to talk about her first film that screened at National Geographic’s 2008 All Roads Film Festival.

• Farzana Wahidy was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1984 and moved to Kabul at the age of six. She attended school during the years of the Afghan civil war, and at the age of eleven began teaching mathematics to sixty students. When the Taliban were defeated, Farzana continued her education and enrolled in a program at the AINA Photojournalism Institute, created by National Geographic photographer Reza. Both Reza and Wahidy join Boyd in the studio to talk about Wahidy’s journey.

• Have you ever been driving down the road and looked up to see a huge whale mural on the side of a building? There are over 100 of these "whaling walls" all over the world, and they were all painted by one artist over the course of the last 27 years. That artist’s name is Wyland, and he joins Boyd in the studio to talk about his work.

• National Geographic Emerging Explorer Sol Guy wants to tell you a story. Stories of incredible individuals from around the world. And he’s doing it through a television show called 4Real that is now airing on the CW network, Sundays at 5pm. Guy, who hosts the show, joins Boyd in the studio to talk about the latest episodes.